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08/30/2020

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05/02/2019

Azusa National Day of Prayer - 7PM - Azusa First Assembly of God Church - 534 N. Alameda Avenue, Azusa. All Azusans come and join us.

02/20/2019

Prayer is essential because it is the key to unlocking the power of the word in our lives.
We should pray...
1. That God would teach us His Word. Psalm 119:12: “Teach me Your statutes.” (See also verses 33, 64b, 66, 68b, 135). True learning of God’s word is only possible if God himself becomes the teacher in and through all other means of teaching.
2. That God would not hide His Word from us. Psalm 119:19: “Do not hide Your commandments from me.” The Bible warns of the dreadful chastisement or judgment of the word of God being taken from us (Amos 8:11, see also verse 43).
3. That God would make us understand His Word. Psalm 119:27: “Make me understand the way of Your precepts” (verses 34, 73b, 144b, 169). Here we ask God to cause us to understand — to do whatever he needs to do to get us to understand his word.
4. That God would incline our hearts to His Word. Psalm 119:36: “Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to [dishonest] gain.” The great problem with us is not primarily our reason, but our will — we are disinclined by nature to read and meditate and memorize the word. So we must pray for God to incline our wills.
5. That God would give us life to keep His Word. Psalm 119:88: “Revive me according to your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of your mouth.” He is aware that we need life and energy to give ourselves to the word and its obedience. So he asks God for this basic need. (See also verse 154b)
6. That God would establish our steps in His Word. Psalm 119:133: “Establish my footsteps in your word.” We are dependent on the Lord not only for understanding and life, but for the performance of the word. That it would be established in our lives. We cannot do this on our own.
7. That God would seek us when we go astray from His Word. Psalm 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant.” It is remarkable that this godly man ends his psalm with a confession of sin and the need for God to come after him and bring him back. This too we must pray again and again.

02/13/2018

Come DWELL with us on Tuesday evening - 7pm - 9pm
Prayer for any and all needs - healing, provision, family, job... Come one, come all and receive from the LORD.

01/09/2018

Proverbs 16:3 - Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established.

Commit literally means to roll down, to roll away, to remove. We are encouraged to roll our works into God’s care. The picture is like someone who is weighed down with a backpack - when we remove the load, we tilt to one side and the backpack rolls off. To commit our work to the Lord is to trust Him with the burden and let Him carry the load for us. Jesus says it this way in the book of Matthew: “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me… for My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
When Jesus said take My yoke upon you, He was saying commit your works to Me. The yoke of Jesus is easy and light as compared with the burdens we try to carry ourselves. Still, the yoke or plans of Jesus are only easy and light when we don’t rebel against it and try and do it our way. There is such relief when we realize that the yoke of Jesus has nothing to do with worries or the burdens we choose to add to it.
This isn’t a call to a lazy or indulgent life. There is still a yoke to bear and burden to carry. This still requires a commitment on our part to roll it off on Him as we continue to obey and follow Him. His yoke is easy, not because it makes lighter demands, but because it represents entering into a disciple-relationship with the Holy Spirit. Here then is a simple test about what you’ve committed to the Lord as He establishes your plans: If your yoke is hard and your burden is heavy, then it isn’t His yoke or burden, and you aren’t letting Him bear it with you. Jesus couldn’t have said it more plainly: My yoke is easy and My burden is light. Our part is to commit our works to Him and trust him with the outcome.

01/08/2018

Matthew 18:20 NKJV - For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

In a culture where we feel two or three hundred, even thousands, are necessary to say we’ve been to church, Jesus says meetings of His people, meetings full of power and authority connected to heaven, do not need to be large gatherings. He shows up where only two or three of His followers gather at a time. Jesus is just as much present in the community living room as He is in the mega auditorium. He doesn’t need or require numbers.
A meeting of two or three is easy to gather. Someone is always close at hand, and it isn’t hard to find a place to meet. It also emphasizes how much Jesus loves community over isolation — agreement over independence. Two or three are mentioned, not to encourage absence, but to cheer the faithful few who do not forget the power of community.
But it’s not just meeting, it’s meeting in Jesus’ name that is most essential. Gathering together in His name means that we are known by Him and by His name and that He is our point of gathering.It also means we gather in a manner that Jesus would endorse. And here is the great reward of this gathering — Jesus isn’t up front, and He isn’t the back — He is right in the middle of it all. When we are in a gathering where He is in the midst, no one talks about how good the music or worship was or wasn’t; no one comments on the depth or shallowness of the teaching — all they know or care about is that Jesus showed up and He planted Himself right in the center of it. And here’s the best part — Jesus is not among us to point out our sins; or to mark down the imperfections of our worship; but to enlighten, strengthen, comfort and most of all love us.

01/03/2018

1 John 1:15 - Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The two master struggle is a daily battle for many. Jesus knew it when he warned that no one can serve two masters — he’ll either hate one and love the other, or he’ll be devoted to one and despise the other. John further warns that if we walk in sin and claim to be in fellowship with God, we are lying. He then points out a specific area of sin that especially threatens our fellowship with God: worldliness, that is to love the world.
Simply put, the world is the community of sinful humanity that is united in rebellion against God. Society’s united rebellion against God at the tower of Babel is a great example of the world today. At the tower of Babel, there was an anti-God leader named Ni**od; there was organized rebellion to disobey the command to disperse over the whole earth, and there was direct distrust of God’s word and promise in building what was probably a water-safe tower to protect against a future flood from heaven. This story shows that the world’s progress, technology, government, and organization can make man better off, but not better. Because we like being better off, it is easy to fall in love with the world. But there is also a good part of the story in that it shows us that the world system—as impressive and winning as it appears to be—will never win out over God. The Lord defeated the rebellion at the tower of Babel easily. The world system will never win out over God.
We are not to love either the world’s system or its way of doing things. There is a secular, anti-God or ignoring-God way of doing things that characterizes our world today, and it is easy to love the world in this sense.
Notice what the world wants from us is love. This love is expressed in time, attention, and expense. We are encouraged and persuaded to give our time, attention, and money to the things of this world instead of the things of God, which brings us back to the struggle Jesus warned about — trying to love two systems the same. If you love the world, there are rewards to be gained. You may find a place of prestige, of status, of honor, and even comfort. The world system knows how to reward its lovers. At the same time, even at their best the rewards that come from this world last only as long as we live. The problem is that though we gain prestige, status, honor, and comfort of this world, we lose the eternal prestige, status, honor that comes from loving Jesus with all our heart, mind and spirit.
Never forget John’s warning: “If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Simply put, love for the world is incompatible with love for the Father. Therefore if one claims to love God and yet loves the world, there is something wrong with his claim to love God.

01/02/2018

Thought for the Day:
Hebrews 13:5 NKJV - Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Covetousness is the opposite of contentment. Often covetousness and greed are excused or even admired in today’s culture, and are simply called “ambition.”
Contentment has much more to do with what you are on the inside rather than what you have. Paul had the right idea when he wrote to the Philippians, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
I will never leave you nor forsake you is the reason why we must not be covetous. There is no room to be covetous, no excuse for being covetous, for God has promised that He would never leave us or turn His back on us. This should be enough for us to be content. As followers of Christ, if we are not content, then we really have to examine who or what we are really following
If we truly believe this verse, then there is no room for doubt or fear. We cannot be miserable or despondent. Even the enemy cannot come up with circumstances under which we could be miserable if this verse is true. The right conclusion then is, nothing should make us unhappy or discontent if we hold onto and believe this promises.