Scripture Text: Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB

We serve an awesome God – in the truest and most literal sense of that word. But we still aren’t to the limit. After that the Apostle Paul reminds us that all that God does in and through us is “according to the power that works within us.” Amazing things are possible not through our power or our abilities but rather through the power of our Almighty God. The main idea of Pastor Wallace’s message today is that the greatest ambition we as a church could ever have is to bring glory to God with our individual and corporate lives. That’s the very core of our 2025 Vision for Covenant and for you. If you are blessed after hearing this message, please seed into our ministry by visiting us at www.indycovenant.org. Amen

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Scripture Text: Psalm 5:1-3 NRSV

Today we come to our third sermon in our message about Making Your Life Count: Approaching God in Prayer.” Everyone prays sometimes; but not everyone prays the same. How can you make prayer an important part of your life that indeed changes your life and the lives of those around you? Pastor Wallace suggests to us that how we approach God matters to Him. He begins with considering two of the assumptions King David used to approach God in his prayer life: 1). God is great enough to answer our prayers and, 2). Prayer should be a priority in our lives. With these assumptions, you can appropriately approach God in prayer by first a sense of urgency, secondly, going to God in the early morning, and third, with a sense of expectancy. Professor Peter Gomes reminds us that “the Christian does not live by experience alone but by experience tempered by great expectation.” Do you pray with a sense of expectation, or do you live like the blind man at the pool of Bethesda? Amen

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Scripture Text: Colossians 3:23-24 NRSV

Today we are returning to an important topic, namely, making your life count through our work. Last week Pastor Wallace shared that whatever you do includes anything you must do, anything you choose to do, anything you are commanded to do by God, and most importantly whatever includes fulfilling your purpose in life. What kind of worker are you? Is your work outside the realm of your faith or is work also something God transforms by the gospel in us? In this message, Pastor Wallace shares insights about our faith and living it out in all of our days of labor and making our life count. That’s why the Apostle Paul in his letter to the early church in Colossae urges the followers of Christ in saying, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters…” In other words, we have to see our work as worship. More importantly, the Lord is sitting high watching us. And, as this passage says, someday He is going to reward us or not for the quality of the work we offer to Him as worship. Amen.

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