Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Ryan wraps up our series START WITH PRAYER.

There is power in praising God even in difficult times, like Paul and Silas in prison, trusting that God’s timing will bring a miracle. Through prayer, believers can access God's power and experience His presence, even in the darkest moments.

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan continues his series START WITH PRAYER.

There is power in a short prayer to produce an incredible miracle! The prophet Isaiah prayed 64 words, and fire fell and changed the course of a nation. King Hezekiah was about to die and prayed a short prayer to the Lord his God! A man named Jabez! We talked about his great prayer last week! 30 words! God responded and blessed Him beyond his brothers! Why? He dared ask!

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan shares a powerful word on the idea of hearing from the Lord in the coming new year.

In the book of First Chronicles the Bible tells us about a man named Jabez. The first nine chapters consist of genealogies, listing more than six hundred names. Right in the middle of all those names, God singles out one man for special recognition, and his name is Jabez. There are only two verses in the entire Bible about this man, yet he’s given honorable mention above the six hundred other people mentioned in the chapter.

Why did God single him out? What did Jabez do that caused his name to be preserved for over four thousand years? What made him above average and worth mentioning in this way?

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan shares a powerful word on the idea of hearing from the Lord in the coming new year.

There is a fresh WORD for every season of your life! A fresh purpose of God for your: Family! Marriage! Kids!

The word God is giving me for our church this year is FORWARD. REVEAL.

Isaiah 43:16–19 NLT: 16 I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. 17 I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. 18 “But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. 19 For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan continues his series BEHOLD.

The incarnation! God becoming flesh! Such a central and powerful part of our doctrine and beliefs!

Today we conclude our series Behold….. With a profound topic I cannot wait to explore! Origin stories!

Origin Stories! Everyone has an origin story! It’s the story of your beginning! Where you came from. What you went through!

Here’s a few origin stories you might find interesting:

Growing up so poor her family literally made her clothes from potato sacks. She was shuffled around to rural farms and boarding

homes and suffered abuse and teen pregnancy. You might know about her? Her name is Oprah Winfrey.

Growing up in a government housing projects watching his father spiral into what he describes as a “broken man” from a hard life.

This man says he carry’s this weight of his impoverished childhood with him every day. His name is Howard Shultz and he’s the

CEO of Starbucks.

Dropping out of school at age 10 to become an indentured servant to a print maker, this man was 1 of 17 children in his family. He

would go on to be one of the greatest inventors in history for the era and be known as a founding father of our nation. His name is

Benjamin Franklin.

Born in a one-roomed weavers cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland. This man emigrated to America with his family when he was 13

because of their extreme poverty. His first job in Pennsylvania was as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week. But, he went on to dominate the

US steel industry, amassing a personal fortune. By his death, he had given away $4.8 billion. Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919)

This man grew up in the Great Depression of the 1930s, he had to milk the family cow and do numerous odd jobs to help his family

survive. After the war, he took out a loan to buy a small grocery store. He went on to build this into the giant Walmart supermarket

chain, amassing a fortune of over $23 billion. Samuel Walton (1918 – 1992)

I love hearing origin stories! But none of these compare to the origin story we are celebrating this week!

Christmas is the Origin story of Jesus Christ, The Son of God.

His origin story is not at all what we would expect the origin story of Gods Son to be like! But there is much we can glean from it!

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan continues his series BEHOLD.

The incarnation! God becoming flesh! Such a central and powerful part of our doctrine and beliefs!

As we look at these few passages, rich with meaning and emotion, I see a few things I want to point out today!

Luke 2:1-7 (NLT): At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2 (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5 He took with him Mary, to whom he was engaged, who was now expecting a child. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location. Pastor Jordan continues his series BEHOLD.

I see so much fear in the world today. This was true of that time as well!
The coming of Jesus was an act of PEACE! It was God stretching out His hand to the world in the form of His son! There are 365 fear nots in the bible.... Perfect provision for every single day!

It is vital that we learn to break out of fear and anxiety and live in favor! Nobody overcomes the battles of life with fear!

I want to give you three keys for shifting from fear to FAVOR from the birth of Christ!

Isaiah 9:6 NLT: And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Thank you for joining us for Christian Faith Center’s Sermon of the week. This message is from our Nampa Location.

Pastor Jordan begins a new series focusing on, one of the greatest gifts Heaven ever gave was our ability to see Him!
He went from the eternal God of the cosmos, to the God that we could see, touch... and behold!
When Jesus was born on that wonderful day in History...
The invisible became visible! The intangible appeared! The omnipotent in one instant became breakable!

John 1:14 NLT ......And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’ | s one and only Son.