Rev. David Leeder from Kokomo, Indiana is our speaker for this year’s Power 09. Here are the notes I took from this evening’s rally

Deuteronomy 20:1-9

• We live in challenging days – Sound the battle cry!
• If we are going to reach our community for Christ, we are going to have to get out of the box.
• How can I change my world? Only by being empowered by the Holy Spirit.
• One person can make a difference for Christ.
• What can we do? What kind of people is God looking for?
• We face an active enemy — ¹² For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

   

1. God is looking for people of faith
   1. Must believe in the cause
   2. Must believe in the possibility of victory
   3. Faith is encourage by remembering the past
   4. Assured by God’s presence
      1. We are not on our own
      2. God will be with us
   5. Know they have the strength to win the battle
      1. All things are possible
2. God is looking for people of integrity
   1. Be holy for I am holy
   2. Do not forget the Lord your God
   3. Remember who we are and who we are about
   4. The church is not about me but it’s about Jesus
   5. A soldier must believe in his cause and represent his cause
   6. Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold.
   7. “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.” – Jim Elliott
3. God is looking for people of Commitment
   1. “If Jesus Christ is God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.” – C. T. Studd
   2. “God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.” – Jim Elliott
   3. Not armchair Christianity but cross-carrying Christians – nothing less than all – whatever the cost!
   4. What kind of commitment?
      1. Possessions – we depend on things too much
         1. Where your treasure is there your heart will be
         2. We own nothing, everything is God’s.
      2. Planning – our future and planning belong to God
      3. People – we may have to stand alone.

Are you willing to stand?