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02
Feb

Personal Story With Sam and Gina Cho

In 2011 Bryan Jennings was invited to speak at Horizon North County, where he shared a message focused on the topic of “The Forgotten Promises of God.”-Little did he know that from this speaking engagement a very special friendship would be born with the Cho family.

Although Sam and Gina Cho had heard about Walking On Water a few years back, their interest grew when they heard Bryan speak at their home church, along with their desire to get involved. Gina explains, “Our family motto for this past summer was to serve first then surf so after the service we approached Bryan to see how we might get involved. We were able to serve at each of the surf camps and our girls were able to attend them. The impact the ministry has had on our own girls has been inspiring to witness! They have become so bold in their faith. They are freely and openly sharing their faith in their public school. Ellia even shared her favorite book, the Surfers’ Bible, at her classes Show and Tell. Jesus said, ‘Therefore by their fruits you will know them.’ (Matthew 7:20) We have seen the ‘good fruits’ that are being harvested through W.O.W.”

Walking On Water has been immensely blessed by the Cho family’s willingness to selflessly serve wherever we have had a need. Whether it be helping out at our surf camps, at our outreach events, with mundane office tasks or through prayer the Cho’s have been eager to lend a helping hand. Bryan Jennings shares, “Sam and Gina genuinely exemplify a true servants heart. Not only have they been willing to serve in any and all situations but they have done so every time with a smile on their face! Walking On Water is very thankful for all they do!”

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29
Dec

Word: Romans 11:11

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Romans 11:11 (NKJV)

Please do not miss this! One of the reasons Gentiles are saved is because our salvation is intended to make the Jews jealous. Jealous in a good way...jealous for God! There’s no other way this can happen but through friendship. To “provoke to jealousy” is a Greek expression that means to “come alongside someone, causing him to boil or seethe with jealousy.” To make a Jewish person jealous over our relationship with God through Jesus the Messiah we first need to have Jewish friends. We need to be true friends. Friends who connect, who share their hearts and look out for one another. We need to have relationships with Jews. I think it’s worth mentioning that your friendships with Jewish people should not be based on whether they believe in Jesus or not. True friendships do not have strings attached.

The majority of Jews who have come to faith in Jesus as their Messiah have done so because their Gentile friends shared the gospel with them. If you are a Gentile believer, and you have not been provoking the Jews in your life to jealousy, you have not been fulfilling one of the purposes of your own salvation. This is most likely the first time you have ever heard such a thing, but it’s true! It’s not the only reason Gentiles are saved, but the Bible says it is one of the reasons. You have to wonder whether, over the centuries of Church history, this verse was ignored, taught incorrectly, or simply allowed to slip under the radar.

Excerpt from the Promised Land study guide

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17
Oct

The Word: What’s Your Power Source? Ephesians 1:17-21

Ephesians 1:17-21

“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.”

This past month most of Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico experienced a widespread power outage. For one evening our electrical world shut down and, therefore, our lives too. Grocery stores and gas stations were closed, street signals became four way stops- resulting in horrendous traffic, cell phone and internet services were not working and for a brief period of time those small plastic cards most of us carry around in our wallets possessed not even an ounce of power as all credit card machines and atm’s were down as well. I think it is fair to say that most individuals experienced a feeling of panic, even if only for a brief moment.

This experience brought me to realize how utterly dependent we are upon electrical power in order to carry out most of our daily tasks. It is easy to go about our daily routines failing to recognize the important role electricity plays, only to realize our level of dependency upon it when it is taken away. The truth is we rely upon “power” to the extent that without it our technologically advanced world literally comes to a halt. It is important to realize that this same principle is true in our spiritual lives as well, however, on an even grander scale. Without God’s power we can literally do nothing! (John 15:5). The problem is that we too often neglect Christ’s power, failing to recognize its importance in our lives until we have hit rock bottom or have come to a dead-end road where literally we have no where else to turn and are finally reminded that we have access to a God “who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine ACCORDING TO HIS POWER that is at work within us.” (Ephesians 3:20, emphasis added) God’s word encourages that, “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain ‘move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20.) What would it look like if we lived our lives in such a way where we exercised this “mustard seed” faith and rested not upon man’s wisdom but upon God’s power? (1 Corinthians 2:5)

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