Sans Souci Baptist Church

God's resources are drawn into our lives through relationship with Jesus.  Jesus is the Vine, we are the branches and His life flows into us as we abide and remain in Him.

The primary way that we develop that is through prayer. Prayer is talking with God, it is also listening.  Just as Jesus went to secluded places to pray, Jesus also counsels us to go into our prayer closet, shut the door and pray to the unseen Father who sees us, and will reward us. 
(Matthew 6: 25-34)

The Grace of God is His unmerited favour and empowering presence. Living under that grace, you begin to change from the inside out. Something changes in your heart, so that you desire and long and love in a way that is truly good, that is truly like Jesus.

God fills the universe and is all around us, all we need do is to open up our hearts to Him. The beginning of prayer is doing exactly that.   
(Matthew 6: 9-13)

Prayer is one of the key disciplines of the Christian Life and is central to building an intimate relationship with God.  During the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches His disciples how to pray.  He reveals to them the elements of a perfect prayer, which is commonly known as "The Lord's Prayer' (Matthew 6:5-13)

Jesus describes the kind of people we will become if we live in relationship with Him, with the resources of the Kingdom of God flowing in our lives. Developing an inner life with God's presence, God's Spirit, and His transforming work within.

Jesus also presents a picture of this in the Parable of the Vine "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5) 

This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. (John 15:8-10) 

The great importance of forgiveness towards others and subsequently having peace with God.
When we withhold forgiveness from others, God cannot forgive our sins!  (Matthew 18:21-35)

Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Large crowds came from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. People brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed — and He healed them. 

When Jesus saw the multitudes of people He went up on the mount, sat down and began to teach them that the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available to all who are willing to receive them, even to those considered unworthy of God's blessing.  (Matthew 4:23-5:14)

Matthew 4:26-5:2  Jesus speaks about the kind of person that we can become, not through our own efforts, but by living in the Kingdom of God and being changed from the inside out, by living in relationship with Him. 

Entering God's presence with Thanksgiving and Praise (Psa 100:1-5)

A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. (John 4:23-24)
Mary Magdalene was such a person, worshipping the one who had captivated her heart. Pouring out her love on the one that had first loved her - Jesus.  (Luke 7:38) 

We can become worshippers by filling our hearts with words from the Gospels and Psalms, and asking the Holy Spirit to teach us how to worship in Spirit and in Truth. As we spend time worshipping our great God, He will cause us to be transformed from within.

John 4:19-24