Scripture Related to Ordination

Pastor JoAnn shares various Bible verses that relate to, as well has her own experience regarding the ordination of Christians into positions of leadership and discipleship.

Please note the audio does cut out at the end of the video, as microphones not connected to the recording equipment were used during the ceremony.

Holy Spirit, Come

Isaiah 32:9–16 (NASB)

9 Rise up, you women who are at ease,
And hear my voice;
Give ear to my word,
You complacent daughters.

10 Within a year and a few days
You will be troubled, O complacent daughters;
For the vintage is ended,
And the fruit gathering will not come.

11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent daughters;
Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

13 For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

14 Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken.
Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever,
A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

15 Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,
And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

Prayer: What Is It?

“You hear a lot of talk about prayer. Everybody kinda has this vague idea that, ‘Well, we’re supposed to pray,’ but there’s not really a lot of good teaching on prayer. What is it? What’s it mean? We’re going to look at that just a little bit today. But I want to tell you that prayer is a very important vital part of who we’re called to be.”

Peace and Joy

“Scripture tells us that there are going to be things that happen on this earth that men’s hearts are going to fail them for fear. Well, that doesn’t sound like the condition His body’s supposed to be in, does it? Actually, we’re not supposed to be in fear at all, because there’s no fear in God. It is the peace of God that we seem to lack when things start ramping up.”

Romans 14:17 (NIV)

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 

Millenium II

A continuation of the discussion of the millenium. While the previous sermon got “a little heavy,” this message is one of hope.

1 Corinthians 15:51 (ESV)

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 (ESV)

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,[d] that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.