IFGFLA + R-LIFEBETTERTOGETHER

ISAIAH 9:6-7 (NKJV)6 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER. AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. 7 OF THE INCREASE OF HIS GOVERNMENT AND PEACE THERE WILL BE NO END, UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID AND OVER HIS KINGDOM, TO ORDER IT AND ESTABLISH IT WITH JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE FROM THAT TIME FORWARD, EVEN FOREVER. THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WILL PERFORM THIS.

MIGHTY GOD

Ruth 1: 1-2

1 In the days when the judges ruled,[a] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah,together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.2 The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

Story of RuthELIMELECH = GOD IS HIS KINGBETHLEHEM = HOUSE OF BREADNAOMI = PLEASANT.

There is famine in the land…IF GOD IS ALMIGHTY, WHY THERE IS SUFFERING?WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?WHY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE?

Does suffering show that God is not an Almighty or through suffering God reveals His Power?

Does suffering break us or make us?

NAOMI BECAME BITTERRuth 1: 20-21 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

Ruth 1:16-17 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”

JESUS’ POWER IS AT WORK IN YOU

PHILIPPIANS 2:13 (NLT)13 FOR GOD IS WORKING IN YOU, GIVING YOU THE DESIRE AND THE POWER TO DO WHAT PLEASES HIM.

JESUS’ POWER IS AT WORK FOR

YOU

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10 (NLT)9 EACH TIME HE SAID, “MY GRACE IS ALL YOU NEED. MY POWER WORKS BEST IN WEAKNESS.” SO NOW I AM GLAD TO BOAST ABOUT MY WEAKNESSES, SO THAT THE POWER OF CHRIST CAN WORK THROUGH ME. 10 THAT’S WHY I TAKE PLEASURE IN MY WEAKNESSES, AND IN THE INSULTS, HARDSHIPS, PERSECUTIONS, AND TROUBLES THAT I SUFFER FOR CHRIST. FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG.Ruth 3:18 Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out; for the man will not rest until he has settled it today.”

JESUS’ POWER IS AT WORK THRU

YOU

ACTS 1:8 (NLT)8 BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON YOU. AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES, TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT ME EVERYWHERE—IN JERUSALEM, THROUGHOUT JUDEA, IN SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.

MIGHTY GOD