Chosen and Cherished // Summit Point Church Women's Podcast

God calls us brothers and sisters. He calls us the church. But even deeper than that, He calls us members of His body. If we are all part of the same body, Christ’s body, how does that impact the way we live?

Why do we see so much physical healing with Jesus but not as much physical healing today? Jesus healed for a purpose. John 20:30-31 says that Jesus did many signs and wonders, including healing people SO THAT we might believe. Even when Jesus healed...

We see multiple interactions with demons in the gospels and in the Book of Acts. The demons knew who Jesus was and they had to bow to His authority, but they refused to worship Him as Lord. The demons are scared of God, but they are not afraid of us...

Passage: Matthew 14:22-33 ~ God has authority over all of nature and all things. And He uses every opportunity to teach us that we can trust Him. No matter what storms of life we go through, it’s no surprise to Him, it’s not too big for Him, and He...

Over 700 years before Jesus gave His life for us, He gave Isaiah a clear prophecy of the sacrifice He would offer up for us. Jesus always knew what His mission was for us. This prophecy is the reason we can say without question, “Him for Me.” So… Me...

Who were we without Christ? We were the walking dead… physically alive, but spiritually without hope of survival. BUT GOD sent His Son to die for us and to give us a whole new life and eternal purpose. May we never waver in the hope of the gospel.

Paul said, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” What was he talking about? Contentment. He could be content in any and every circumstance through Jesus. How? He learned how by continuing to offer Himself to the Lord in worship. The...

The Book of Isaiah is referred to by some scholars as the 5th gospel because, though written about 700 years before Jesus came to earth, it tells an enormous amount of information about Jesus… the coming Messiah. Isaiah 55 is one of those prophecies...

What is eternal life? What was Jesus’ purpose in coming to earth? The answer to both questions is the same. Jesus said, “This is eternal life, that they know You, the only true God, and Your Son… I have come to make Your name known.” The Father is our...

Every believer is a servant of someone. The unbeliever is a servant only of “the prince of the power of the air”, “the father of lies”, the deceiver who can only sin. But as a believer in Christ, we have a choice. We are voluntary slaves… either of...

There is something that all believers who are completely surrendered to the Lord have in common… They all have their eyes set on heaven rather than this world. Everything they do is motivated by the call of God to bring us home. Why? Because they all...

God’s name is never mentioned in the book of Esther, and yet we see His hand all over it. He has a purpose for every one of His children, and He is able to accomplish all His plans without fail. We all have a “for such a time as this.” The question...

True functional faith is confidence in the Lord, conviction that He is who He says He is and does what He says He will do even when we can’t see it in the moment. True faith seeks the Lord and draws near to Him. True faith is surrender and worship...

Never mistake God’s patience as weakness. Instead, see His patience as salvation. See Him for who He is, having all authority and power and wisdom. He sees all, He knows all, He is stronger than all. Stand firm in Him.

Last week we talked about the dangers of self reliance and the call to walk in love with Jesus as our example. This week we get to see an example of the dichotomy between self reliance and Spirit reliance, and how they measure up to each other...

What’s our motivation? Is it self sufficiency? God helps those who help themselves? No. God wants our motivation to be His love and our method to be dependence on Him so that He can fill us with everything we need. Pleasing God is simply depending on...

Seek the Lord and His Strength. Seek His presence continually. Why? Because of who He is and all He’s done. He loves you, and He proved it on the cross. Because of Him, your sins are forgiven. Hold fast to the hope you have in Him.

See God and His word for more than rules or religion. See that He is all about relationship… affectionate, caring, tender relationship filled with power and redemption.

The Christmas story is a reason to celebrate for sure. But it’s also a chance to learn and grow. How did each person respond to Jesus? When was God really clear about His plan and when did He wait to reveal His plan? How can this story that changed...

The storms of life can be overwhelming. But if we keep our eyes on Jesus and put our hope in Him, we will find that He is Lord over the storm. He will use every storm to grow our faith deeper and to show us more of who He is. And He will sustain us...

Sometimes we see this life talked about as a battle. Sometimes we see it talked about as a race. We never see it talked about as a picnic or a vacation. Hebrews 12 tells us to run this race with endurance. How do we do that? With the courage of faith...

What is faith? Faith is being confident in our hope and convinced in what we CANNOT see. When is faith hard? Faith is hard when our hope has not yet been realized and when we cannot yet see the answer, but we do see the brokenness of this world...

When we rely on anything or anyone other than the Lord and His word, we turn to things that will never satisfy and actually cause damage. God loves us so much and He wants to be our safety and our strength. What do we do to experience His safety and...

In Genesis 3, we learn that Adam and Eve rebelled against God. In that moment, God did 2 things. He gave a punishment—called a curse—on the serpent, Adam, and Eve. And He gave the first offering of hope that He would come to reverse the curse for all...

True faith in God is followed by obedience motivated from love. Jesus obeyed the will of the Father without compromise, and He calls us to do the same… Stand firm in faith, seeking to please God and not man, in full obedience to Him because we love Him.

Marriage is so much more than a horizontal relationship between a man and a woman. It is a model of Jesus and His bride… the church. We can see Jesus in how we’re called to love and respect each other in marriage, and we can model ourselves after...

Psalm 103 tells us to bless the Lord because of His love, mercy, and compassion. Psalm 104 tells us to bless Him because of how intimately involved He is in every detail of ALL life, and how He gives us purpose. How do we bless Him? Trust Him...

God calls us to “strive to enter His rest.” That sounds like we have to earn entrance into His eternal rest in heaven. We don’t work for that rest. We TRUST for that rest. The truth is, we need to put all our trust in Jesus. He leads us to the...

Our God is good, powerful, and in charge. His love endures forever. That is why we can bow to His authority without fear. He uses His authority and power to do good in our lives… even in the brokenness of this world, because He loves us.

Never let yourself think that God has no purpose for your life. His purpose for you has eternal value, no matter who you are. He will use your role in the body of Christ to build His Kingdom… and there is nothing more satisfying than fulfilling your...

Science observes the natural, how God maintains… but it can’t observe or explain the miracle. Don’t steal the miracle. Don’t miss the miracle or the power. His power is what sustains us, what gives us light and life, what gives us joy. To sign up...

At the core of everything we understand about God is a truth that is proclaimed throughout scripture… In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He is more powerful than anything man can match or measure. To trust His power is to find...

God wants us to treasure Him over anything else… not because we have to, but because we want to. He knows that relationship with Him is what will satisfy us over all things. The things of earth are temporary, but relationship with God is eternal. He...

In Ephesians 3, Paul prayed for us to be strengthened by the Holy Spirit so that we could comprehend the love of God that is beyond comprehension. Why do we need the Holy Spirit to give us strength for that? We can’t grasp it without His help, and His...

We have been set free from the law of sin and death… so why do we still struggle with sin? Sin dwells within us and takes our minds captive to get us to sin more. And our flesh cooperates with the sin. But here’s the good news… God has delivered us...

Why did Jesus set us free from the domain of darkness? Was it to let us keep living in darkness, but with more freedom? No. It was to give us a whole new life… newness of eternal life with Him. Now we don’t have to let sin dominate us. We can love...

God calls us to pay close attention to the truth of His word so that we don’t drift away from Him. The truth doesn’t change when we drift, but we miss out on experiencing the incredible hope we have when we do. This is the truth ~ Because we have been...

Do you want to be a friend of God? Do you want to grow stronger in your faith? The answer is found NOT in trying harder, but in honoring the Lord by walking in the footsteps of the faith… as Abraham did. To sign up to receive Climbing Up to the...

We had to get to the bad news that we were absolutely hopeless to achieve our salvation so that we could appreciate the wonderful news that Jesus gave us a free gift for our spiritual birthday. The gift of righteousness, justification, redemption, and...

Today, we continue our study of Romans, focusing on Romans 2 in which Paul gives clear understanding that knowing the Word of God is not enough to earn salvation. He gives the bad news so that his hearers are ready to embrace the good news. The bad...

Over the next 8 weeks, we will be looking at the first 8 chapters of Romans with a few extra passages added in. This week we start with Romans 1, where we see the priceless value of our faith. To sign up to receive Climbing Up to the Heart of God...

We are living on a battlefield as long as we’re on this earth. If we don’t understand that, we will resent God and feel that He’s failed us. But He tells us in His word what to expect, He gives us everything we need to win the battles, He is with us...

God calls us to have a supernatural, divine love that is only possible to have if we are letting the Holy Spirit freely move in us. But as we abide in Him, He gives us this love that casts out fear. He satisfies us with His love, and we are more free...

Before Christ, we were living for our selfish passions, slaves to the ruler of this world who is the devil. But God saved us and gave us a whole new purpose. The purpose God has for us is excellent and profitable. To sign up to receive Climbing Up...

Throughout the history of the Old Testament, when something supernatural happened, the power of the Holy Spirit was at work. In these later times, since the Day of Pentecost, the Spirit comes to dwell in the hearts of every believer. There is no power...

The Holy Spirit has been at work since the beginning of time. He moved about 40 men to write the scriptures over 1500 years. When Jesus ascended to Heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in the hearts of people who turn to Jesus in faith. And now He...

Jesus said that the Father gives us the Holy Spirit because He gives us more than we could ask for. He also said that it was to our advantage that He ascended to Heaven, so that the Holy Spirit could come. What do we need to understand about the Holy...

Paul never met the Colossian believers, but he heard of their faith… with no internet or cell phones. He was so excited for their faith that he wanted to encourage them, to stay rooted in the love of Christ, and to keep their eyes on Him. That’s what...

Life Verse… Life Goal God wants our motivation in life to be His love because Jesus did for us what we could not do for ourselves. His blood covers our sin. How will we let His sacrifice change our perspective of life and our mission in this...

God has said that He wants us to walk in the steps of Jesus, to follow His example. Jesus has gone through everything we go through so that He could be a model for us to follow. What can we learn from His example? To sign up to receive Climbing Up...