A New Life In Christ!

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

2 Corinthians 5:17

Beginning Your New Life In Christ!

Reverend Les Potts

 (Booklet reprinted on SagacityWeb by permission of Reverend Les Potts)

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“For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life.”

 

John 3:16

Unless otherwise indicated,

Scripture verses quoted are taken from the

NEW KING JAMES VERSION.

 

 

WHAT WAS LOST

  

INTRODUCTION   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

This web page is designed to get you started in your new life in Christ.  It contains some necessary first steps to help you navigate through the most exciting journey in life.  You will probably want to read this through two or three times the first week after you have made a decision to let Jesus Christ remove your sins.

 

BEGINNING YOUR NEW LIFE IN CHRIST   (Return to Table of Contents)

Pastor Les Potts

First of all, let me welcome you to the body of Christ.  God calls the church a family in Ephesians 2:15.  Because of that I need you to know that you have become a part of a very big family.  The actual numbers of this family are known only to God, yet all around us we find numerous friends who are a part of the visible church of Jesus Christ.  Let’s review how you have been received into this family.

 

Here we teach how simple it is to enter into God’s family by using the ABC’s.

 

¨      A we first of all admit that we are sinners.  The scriptural teaching for this is multiple.  Romans 3:23 teaches:  “…all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”   You and I are individually responsible for our acts of sin.  We cannot stand before God and blame anyone else for what we have done wrong.

 

¨      B is to believe in our heart that Jesus is God’s one and only Son.  John 3:16 teaches this so clearly:  “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”   Jesus, God’s Son, was born of a virgin.  He lived a life without sin for approximately 30 years.  He was crucified on a cross for the sins of all mankind both preceding Him and following after Him.  They buried Him and three days later He broke death’s power and resurrected from the dead.  He then ascended to the Father where, now as our High Priest, He lives to make intercession on our behalf.

 

¨      C is to confess before God and man what we believe in our heart. The Bible says in Romans 10:9-10:  “… if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.”  “A” admit, “B” believe, “C” confess, and you enter God’s family.  God takes our sin away by the sacrifice of His own Son’s blood and gives us eternal life as it says in Romans 6:23 :  “…the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  This is exactly what Jesus was saying to Nicodemus in John 3:3 when Jesus said:  “unless one is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”  Having followed the ABC’s we have entered into the new life that God has for us and we are now a part of God’s family.

 

There are any number of ways one can pray a prayer to God confessing his or her sin.  Here is one simple prayer:

 

Heavenly Father, I come to you today in Jesus’ name.  I admit that I have sinned.  I have done wrong.  I believe that Jesus is your one and only Son.  I believe His death on the cross was sufficient to cover my sin.  I ask you now to forgive me of all my sinning through the blood of Jesus Christ. I confess to you my sin (we should name any known sins to God at this point) and come to you to receive the gift of eternal life.

 

Here is what God describes in His Word happens to us when we do this.  First, in John 1:12:  “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”   Then in Romans 8:16:  “ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”   Ephesians 1:13-14 takes us into the realm of this family by sharing this truth:  “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”  We have become God’s children.  The Spirit of God marks us as such by coming to dwell in our lives and in effect give us the earnest money as a down payment on our eternal salvation.

 

The most important question to be answered is, How do I know I am saved?

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

If you have followed these simple steps then you can know for sure that you are God’s child.  You may doubt it intellectually and you may emotionally not feel a tremendous amount of difference but there is a certain key we have to knowing that we are saved.  Our assurance comes from the Word of God.  God’s Word is certain, truthful and abiding.  Here is what the Bible teaches.  John 6:47:  “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.”   In 1 John 5:13  “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”   II Corinthians 5:17:  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

 

When doubts arise and we don’t feel saved we need to turn to scriptures to remind ourselves of what God says about us.  If the doubts arise because we recognize that we have sinned again then we can go immediately to I John 1:9:  “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

 

Remember the most important thing to know to assure you that you are saved is what the Bible says about those who confess their sins to God.  They are delivered from their sin.

 

 

INTIAL STEPS TO TAKE NOW   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

There are certain things which will build your relationship with Christ.  If you practice these disciplines daily they will assist you in your growth as a disciple of Jesus Christ.  I personally love to work in my yard.  One thing I have discovered, living in a semi-arid area, is to give the grass, not only water, but the right nutrients. This is what keeps grass green.  Nitrogen is a must in our area.  I found that one of the local chemical companies has the best lawn food because it is designed specifically for our location and not just a generic mix.  The following three things I am going to suggest to you now will keep you in a place of growth and will fuel your desire to keep growing.  These essential nutrients will be specifically applied to your life by the power of the Holy Spirit. The result will be that you grow into maturity and love the process.  Let’s begin by discussing prayer.

 

PRAYER   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

Prayer is communication with God.  It is two way.  1) You talk and God listens.  2) God talks and you listen.  The Word of God gives us clear instruction about prayer.  It says in Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”   In I Thessalonians the Bible says:  “Pray without ceasing.”   Prayer is conversation with God.  It is simply talking, listening and responding.  God calls us to pray.  Most of us discover that being a disciple of Christ includes great opportunity for us to offer God thanks and praise.  You can start right now by thanking Him for sending His Son Jesus to the Cross because of your sins.  Now because of Christ’s resurrection and your faith in that resurrection you have the gift of eternal life.  Take a moment and thank God for eternal life.

 

So prayer should begin with praise, thanks, gratitude, and worship.  Concentrate on who God is.   Then move to what God has done.  Just use short sentence prayers and talk to God with adoration and appreciation in your attitude.  If you think you are going to struggle with this start by using Psalms 95:1-7 as a beginning praise.  Other scriptures are Psalms 147 and Philippians 1:1-11.  The Bible says:  “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise, be thankful to Him and bless His name for the Lord is good.” (Psalms 100:4-5a)

 

Once we have spent some time in praise and thanks we should move into petition.  There is nothing wrong with asking God for help about anything that concerns you.  What do you have need of?  The list of physical, emotional, financial and other needs are usually extensive.  We must learn to ask God and believe that He hears us.  I John 5:14-15 says:  “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.  And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”  When we pray we should do three things:  1) Believe that God will answer you;  2) Ask for them in Jesus name;  3)  Ask for things He wants you to have.  It would be good to keep a list of the people and things you are praying for, then circle the petition when God answers it!

 

One final thing about prayer.  We must learn to listen for God to speak to us.  God is our Father and wants to spend time communicating with you.  He wants to be your closest friend.  When you talk with someone else on the phone you don’t talk all the time, do you?  Don’t you give the other person a chance to say something?  God probably won’t speak in an audible voice to you, but will impress certain things on your heart and mind.  God may impress you with something to do, to change, or someone to encourage or pray for.  Most of the time God will speak to us through His Word the Bible.  If you feel impressed to do something and aren’t sure about it always check it in light of the written Word of God.  If it doesn’t agree with the written Word then don’t do it.

 

You can pray all the time.  You can pray anywhere.  God is always present and available to us when we pray in faith. I think the morning is the best time to pray because it sets in order the rest of the day ahead of us.  Besides, if God is becoming our best friend why shouldn’t we start the fellowship at the beginning of the day?

 

 

BIBLE READING   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

Bible reading is one of the most important things you will do every day.  It is the power of God to minister life to you and I every day that we live.  Why is this true?  It is true because the Word of God is a person, Jesus Christ.  John 1:1,14:  “In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God, and the Word was God.  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”   The Bible, although ink on paper for most of us, is truly Jesus Christ.  Every time we read the Bible we are encountering Jesus.  The experience of encountering Jesus daily in the Bible should affect the way we live our lives.  We will consistently become more like what the book says Jesus was like.  We will begin to think like God thinks and act like God acts.  We will begin to hate what God hates.  That why in Psalms 119:11 we are told:  “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”  In Psalms 119: 105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The more time you spend in God’s Word the stronger and more mature you will become.

 

Establish a specific time to read and pray now.  When you read do so prayerfully, meditatively, trustfully and systematically.  The system you personally choose may be to follow one book from start to finish.  Let me suggest the first book to read is the gospel of John, the fourth book of the New Testament.  After that my suggestion will be to read the four gospels:  Matthew, Mark, Luke and John again.  You will want to maintain a system in order to understand how God is dealing with you in your life.  What will probably surprise you is that you will begin to hunger to do more than just read.  You will want to discover more of God’s truth.  That will involve study, meditation and memorization.  Study means to inquire.  Study involves us becoming more Christ-like in our lives.  Some simple things to remember about study is to ask the who, what, where, why, when and how questions. One more thing to learn about study is to use the acrostic SPECK.

 

S —Is there a sin for me to avoid?

P —Is there a promise from God for me to claim?

E —Is there an example for me to follow?

C —Is there a command for me to obey?

K —How can this passage increase my knowledge about God or Jesus Christ?

 

One final thought about the Word.  I have found that memorizing God’s Word has given me a great deal of confidence when dealing with life.  I would challenge you to begin to memorize God’s Word. At the end of this booklet we have provided you with all the scriptures in this booklet so you can have them as a ready reference.

 

 

FELLOWSHIP   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

I believe that all people were created for fellowship with others.  There may be such a thing as a loner in our world, and all of us from time to time need some space, but we are created in the image of God and that means we will long for fellowship.  Fellowship is about relationship with other people and with God.  In I John 1:3,7 we read:  “That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the father and with His son Jesus Christ.   But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanses us from all sin.” Fellowship may be advanced by certain spiritual disciplines but God specifically wants you and I to enjoy the “relationship” we have with Him.  He desires our fellowship and wants to enjoy our relationship as much as He wants us to enjoy it.  Notice that the key to having fellowship with God and one another is to “walk in the light.”   Light is so powerful that wherever it is, darkness disappears.  Sin is always described in the Bible as darkness.  Sin disappears where there is light.  In the New Testament we are encouraged to know each other closely and intimately enough to bear one another’s burdens, confess faults one to another, rebuke, exhort and admonish one another, minister to one another with the Word and through song and prayer, and then come to comprehend with all the saints, as Paul puts it, what is the breadth, and length, and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.  (Ephesians 3:18-19)

 

One of the important things about fellowship is to attend church.  Here at Open Bible Christian Center we have service times to accommodate most schedules. Changing work schedules are usually not a problem with the multiple options we offer.  Our goal is to make it possible for you to be in the house of God, with God’s people each week. The Bible is clear in Hebrews 10:24-25 “ Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”   This verse describes that it is a command of God to participate in a local church.  I know of no place in the world that affords the fellowship, caring, nurture and help that one can find in a local church.

 

We have now discussed the three initial steps necessary to ongoing growth in a new believer’s life, (prayer, Bible reading and fellowship.)  We will move forward to discuss three more issues that are important for a new believer to understand.  The first is “water baptism,” the second is “pitfalls along the way,” and the final one is “witnessing.”

 

 

WATER BAPTISM   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

There is available to everyone, an opportunity to be baptized, Let me cover some basics here so that you will become motivated to become baptized in water. (For a more thorough discussion of water baptism pick up a water baptism booklet at the information desk at the church)

 

Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, was himself baptized in water in Matthew 3:13-17.  Jesus now commands us to go and baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Matthew 28:19.   Water baptism symbolizes three things: 1) that we have been cleansed from our sin by our confession of faith in Jesus Christ and His shed blood; 2) that we are free from the consequences of sin according to Romans 6:4, “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” ; 3) that we have already begun a new life in Jesus Christ.

 

When Jesus was baptized in water the Word of God says: “Jesus came up immediately from the water” which indicates that He was down under the water.  That is why we baptize by immersion.  We “bury” one under the water symbolic of death to sin, and raise them up symbolic of newness of life.

 

We encourage everyone who has gone the route of ABC (admit, believe, confess) to follow our Lord Jesus Christ in His example of water baptism.  Don Stamps says:  “water baptism involves a commitment to a lifelong practice of turning one’s back on the world and all that is evil and pledging oneself to live a new life in the Spirit that reflects God’s standards of righteousness.”  We encourage you to be baptized in water at the earliest opportunity.

 

PITFALLS ALONG THE WAY   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

One of the first things that will happen to you after you have admitted you are a sinner, believed on the power of Christ to save you from your sin, and confessed this with your mouth, is that you will be tempted to go back and sin.  James 1:13-15:  “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.  Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”   So we see that our flesh is at war with the spirit of God which now dwells in us.  We are taught this in I Corinthians 3: 16  “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”  In Romans 8:5-9a :  “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.  So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.  But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.”

 

Temptation is not sin.  It becomes sin only when we yield to the temptation and do what we have been tempted to do.  Jesus was tempted in Matthew 4.  At every point of temptation He used the Word of God to defeat temptation.  Our only hope in being victorious against temptation is to do likewise.  That is why we must memorize the Word of God, hide it in our heart and use it when temptation comes our way.

 

Another way to overcome temptation is to flee the situation we find ourselves in that is tempting us. In James 4:7 the Bible says:  “Therefore submit to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”   In I Corinthians 6:18:  “Flee sexual immorality.”   We must learn early that our flesh wants to sin.  We must avoid sin.

 

We also need to know that God intends for us not to sin again.  If we do sin, as soon as we recognize it we must practice I John 1: 9  “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

 

The Bible teaches us that we were made to be more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  Christ is our attorney who will through His intercession argue our case before the Father.  Let’s put to death, then, the deeds of our body, so we will live.

 

 

WITNESSING   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

Now that the greatest event in the world has happened to us we are free to tell everyone we know.  To be a witness is to tell what one has seen or heard; you simply attest to it.  When any great event happens in your life you tell everyone you know.  When something bad happens we seek to hide it from others.  If you buy a new vehicle you show it to your friends and invite their congratulations.  When you get a speeding ticket with that vehicle you hope no one you know sees you stopped by the police along the road.  To have the burden of sin released from our life and to know Jesus Christ in a personal and intimate way is the most awesome thing to happen to anyone.  So the natural thing is to witness to others of what has occurred in our life.

 

We do this because the Bible commands us in Matthew 28:19-20:  “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”   Since the greatest thing to ever happen has taken place we are to take the news worldwide.  When we go, we only need to tell what has happened to us.

Today is the day to start witnessing.  It is the right time to tell your closest friends what you have done.  Don’t delay.  Go tell the good news.

 

Here’s all you need to know.  ABC!  Remember the start of this little booklet.  Look back there now.  You can point the way for anyone if you will just use that little treasure.  You can share what you did to receive Christ.  Most important of all, point your friends to Jesus.

 

Back in 1964 I felt the burden of my own sin.  I was so convicted by the Holy Spirit of God about the wrong doing that I was involved in that I wanted out of the mess I was creating.  I understood what it meant to ask God to forgive my sin.  I also understood that to repent meant to turn about face 180 degrees away from sin and move toward God.  On a quiet afternoon in Northglenn, Colorado I knelt down in the grass in the back yard of my folks’ home and admitted my sin to God, believed on His Son Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord and confessed with my mouth.  Life has been forever different for me.  Not only did I receive immediate forgiveness; I entered into a covenant with God that I belonged to Him and He to me.   I am extremely grateful for that moment in my life.  I have never been the same.  I really live now and enjoy it.  Just recently I was in the home of a family I know.  Their six-year-old son was faced with fear and terror night after night.  I explained to him God’s plan of salvation through Jesus Christ.  Right there in his bedroom with his parents and our children’s pastor I led him in the sinner’s prayer.  There is nothing more thrilling in all the earth.

 

Now you have taken this most important step.  The next best thing will be the privilege of getting to lead one of your friends or family members to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  May you find this adventure of life in Christ is the most exciting time you have ever had.  Let me pray over you right now.

 

 

 

Heavenly Father, right now in Jesus’ name I hold up my friend who has read this important booklet.  I thank You for their life.  I thank You that Jesus’ blood is still available to wipe out any and every sin.  I ask You to fill them with the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You.  I pray You will open the eyes of their understanding so they will understand the hope of Your calling and the riches of the glory of the inheritance in the saints.  I pray that they will experience the greatness of Your power working in them.  I pray that they will be filled with the knowledge of Your will.  I pray that they might walk worthy of You Lord, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.   I pray You will strengthen them with all might according to your glorious power.  May they abound more and more in Your love.  May they learn to approve things that are excellent.  May they be filled with the fruits of righteousness.  May Your blessing rest upon them as they serve You and follow Your direction.  In Christ’s name I pray. Let it be so.

 

BOOKLET SCRIPTURE REFERENCES   (Return to Table of Contents)

 

Romans 3:23 teaches:  “that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”

 

John 3:16 teaches this so clearly:  “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

 

Romans 10:9-10:  “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.”

 

John 1:12:  “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”

 

Romans 8:16:  “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”

 

Ephesians 1:13-14  :  “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”

 

John 6:47:  “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.”

 

I John 5:13  “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”

 

II Corinthians 5:17:  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

 

I John 1:9:  “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

 

Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.”

 

I John 5:14-15:  “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.  And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”

 

John 1:1,14:  “In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God, and the Word was God.  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

 

Psalms 119:11 we are told:  “Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you.”

 

Psalms 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

 

I John 1:3,7  “that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the father and with His son Jesus Christ.   But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanses us from all sin.”

 

Hebrews 10:24-25 “Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

 

Romans 6:4  “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”

 

James 1:13-15:  “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.  Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”

 

I Corinthians 3:16  “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”

 

Romans 8:5-9a:  “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.  So the, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.  But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.”

 

James 4:7 “Therefore submit to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

 

I Corinthians 6:18:  “Flee sexual immorality.”

 

Matthew 28:19-20:  “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to Find Needed Encouragement   (Return to Table of Contents)

(Highlight over verse Reference and verse will appear)

 

SUBJECT	VERSE
Anger	Romans 12:17-21
Anxiety	1 Peter 5:6-11
Apathy	James 5:17
Assurance	Romans 8:28
Bitterness	1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Confusion	1 Corinthians 14:33
Criticism	Psalms 27
Delay	Isaiah 40:31
Depression	Psalms 119:139-144
Direction	Proverbs 3:5-6
Disappointment	Psalms 139:16
Failure	Philippians 1:6
Fear	2 Timothy 1:7, Isaiah 41:10
Health	1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Hurry	Lamentations 3:25-26
Inadequacy	Romans 11:33-36
Insecurity	Matthew 6:31-34
Loneliness	Hebrews 13:5, 6:8
Pressure	Philippians 4:13
Pride	James 4:10
Priorities	Matthew 6:33
Promotion	1 Peter 5:6-11
Purity	1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
Purpose	Philippians 3:7-14
Rejection	Ephesians 1:6, 1 John 4:17-19
Stress	Philippians 4:6-8
Temptation	1 Corinthians 10:13
Truth	2 Timothy 3:16-17
Uncertainty	Philippians 3:12-14
Values	1 John 2:15-17
Wisdom	James 1:5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pastor Les & Sharon Potts

Senior Pastor

Open Bible Christian Center

 

Les Potts is the Senior Pastor of Open Bible Christian Center in Rapid City, South Dakota. Along with his wife,  Sharon, they have shared ministry for nearly two decades. Pastor Les believes that every believer is empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve God’s Kingdom and make a difference in their world.  God is bringing many to a saving knowledge of His Son.  Through this ministry, lives are being restored, relationships mended and believers empowered to live God-centered lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Bible Christian Center

2225 E. Saint Patrick St.

Rapid City, SD  57703

www.obccrapidcity.org

email:  obcc@obccrapidcity.com

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