Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / Jan 14, 2024
Bible text: Philippians 3:7-8
AVAILABILITY: to place oneself totally at God’s disposal, for God to do anything and everything in you and through you, and with you, and to you that He chooses.
Old Testament Examples of Availability
I. ABRAHAM was available to do the will of God
Read Genesis 22:1-2, 11
A. Response: “Here am I”
The story of Abraham and Isaac
Read Genesis 22:7-8
B. Result of Abraham’s availability
Read Genesis 22:18
Abraham was available to do the will of God
and God blessed him greatly
II. JACOB was available to walk with God
Read Genesis 31:11-17
A. Response: “Here am I”
God wants no celebrities – He wants servants
Read Romans 8:1, Amos 3, 1 John 1:6-7
B. Result: Jacob went – and 70 people went with him
III. NOAH was available to work for God
Read Hebrews 11:7
A. Response: “moved with fear”
B. Result: saving of his family
AVAILABILITY!