Nbf Midcities Podcast

We want God to help us understand and experience true love — which is His love — so that we will be complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

When you are enjoying grace – unmerited love and blessings of a great Father / Shepherd – you are free to enjoy the many benefits of His love life relationship because you know they are undeserved!  God desires for you to be enriched in this abundant life that Jesus paid for!

Your loving, heavenly Father wants you rooted, established and anchored in His unwavering love for you.  He demonstrated His love for you when He sent Jesus to become your sin on the cross so that you can become His righteousness.

Wilderness experiences are times where the believer is led by the Spirit of God into times of discomfort and trials. The gift of the wilderness is important because it is where we reach the end of self and find dependency on God alone.

God is not afraid to keep you needy because it has always been His plan to meet every one of your physical, emotional and spiritual needs. The enemy uses self-centered rebellion as a trap to get us to try and meet our needs ourselves instead of relying on our great Heavenly Father.

The enemy wants you to agree with his lie that this feeling of fear means that you are in big trouble and no one is coming to help you! God wants us to respond to feelings of fear by taking courage and trusting Him to come through.

Being near to the heart of God helps us to have real, tangible confidence that God is everything His Word promises us. The enemy wants us to feel trapped and isolated in our sin. But God wants to be near to us, and all we need to do is turn and repent. He is right there waiting with open arms.

We sometimes feel like we're failing in our Christian life when we don't understand everything God is doing. But God knows we can never fully comprehend His plans, so He wants us to learn to lean into our relationship with Him and let Him lead us.

Perhaps nothing wounds the human heart like the pain of rejection. It has a unique way of grieving our souls at a deep level. Discover how to live free of rejection through the love and acceptance of the Father.

God is always present; He is not limited by time or space. If God is for me, it doesn’t matter and I don’t care who is against me. Faith vs. fear, worry vs. trust... The difference between faith and fear depends on what channel you are watching or listening to.

Do you know that when God blessed you, no one can reverse it? You are irreversibly blessed! No matter how dire your circumstances may seem right now, put a smile on your face, thanksgiving in your mouth, praise in your heart, stand on it with both feet – whom the Lord has blessed, no one can curse. Nothing can separate you from His love!

If you are struggling with sin, guilt, shame, and blame, it is vital that you change glasses from law to grace.  Start seeing God as your loving Father, not your Judge. Jesus’ finished works on the cross made you righteous apart from your works... He has forgiven you and made you complete in Him.  His love and grace – unmerited favor – will cause you to overcome!

The response of our Great Shepherd to a lost sheep is to lift you up and put you on His shoulders.  The sheep receives the closeness, comfort, peace and strength of the Great Shepherd.

Comparison is a dangerous trap designed by the enemy to keep us feeling prideful, envious, frustrated, and hopeless. God's desire is to give us contentment through an understanding of our identity in Christ and His love and acceptance.

We have a real enemy that uses accusation to try and keep us from trusting in the love of Father God. God will provide discernment to us when we ask so we can distinguish His voice of truth from the lies of our accuser.

The trap of overindulgence is designed to get us to take any tangible gift which God has given and overemphasize it; the enemy wants you to make the gift your god. The Father wants you to enjoy all of the good gifts He gives you, as well as having all the moderation you need to enjoy them and not let them have mastery over you.

Envy is a dangerous trap of the enemy that can eat away at our spiritual health. God wants us to lean into Him for contentment, peace and joy rather than coveting what others have that we think will meet our need.

Self-pity wants to draw comfort, value and help from others instead of going to Father God for these things. You can choose to follow Jesus out of a life of slavery to self-pity and into the freedom of reliance on God.

We can't live redemptively without a heart filled with love and compassion. Apostolic elder, Dick Dungan, shares a message about the power of redemption. We also set in place our new youth pastors in James and Cara Allen, and our new children's pastors, Tim and Tawnya Green. Hallelujah!