Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Church Growth | Prayer

As three ingredients Heat, Oxygen and Fuel are required for fire to ignite and keep burning, Desperation,  Faith and Burden are needed for prayer to ignite and burn.

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Church Growth | Praise & Worship (PDSW)

Four Stages of Praise & Worship:
PDSW: Praise, Devotion, Surrender and Worship.
- Praise & Worship is not and outward act, it is inside out.  
- We cannot worship God with our mind, worship is a heart thing. 
- We need to know to move from mind to heart as the worship progresses

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Church Growth | Introduction

In today's modern world, church growth cannot be attained solely through prayer, preaching, witnessing, evangelizing, disciple making, applying management principles, implementing growth techniques, or incorporating modern innovation and media presence.

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Protect What's Entrusted

When I wrote this song " Ways of Escape", and sung many times, I realized the fact that Even though the Victory is Already Won, we need to be vigilant, well aware and cautious to protect our lives and our dear ones. 1. Joseph did not end the marriage in order to protect what was entrusted with him. - Ending or staying is not the question, what are you doing to protect what God has given in your hands?

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Escaping the Battle

The Message of Psalm 124 is "The Lord is the Defense or Defender of His People" 
- Bring the Lord, who is mighty in battle, into your situation
- The Intent of the Enemy is to swallow you alive
- But escape comes from the Lord.

The River's Journey

As the river enriches everything around it, your life will flourish when you draw nearer to God. 
As the river erodes the land, transports sediments, and deposits them to shape the landscape, God is actively removing what needs to be taken away from your life, including people, transporting them away from you,

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Love Separators

Paul talks about some of the potential enemies of God's love that are capable of separating us from the love of Christ in Romans 8:35-39 . We call them as "Love Separators" 
- Troubles of this World

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Stay in the Game

Those who stayed in the game had couple of things in common, they are: 
- Humility to recognize their weaknesses 
- They never allowed their present to dictate their future

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Live Now to Live Later

We must Live now to Live Later 
- Never discriminate anyone socially and deny the help they deserve 
- If you are discriminated for some reason, patiently wait for the eternal reward

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Get Ready for the New | New Year 2024 Sermon

A prophetic declaration for 2024:
Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare (prophesy); Before they spring forth I tell you of them. Isaiah 42:9 (NKJV)

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