Walking In The Living Word
Welcome to WALKING IN THE LIVING WORD MINISTRIES; a weekly podcast with your host, Pastor Mike Futrell.
Walking In the Living Word is committed to teaching, equipping, and mobilizing the Body of Christ through faithful teaching and the proclamation of God’s Word.
Get ready to receive today as Pastor Mike Futrell inspires you on your journey of WALKING IN THE LIVING WORD....
Episodes
54 episodes
Week 5 Discipleship - The Great Commission and The Church's Responsibility To Make Disciples
Today we come to one of the most important passages in the whole Bible for the life of the church: Matthew 28:18-20. I want to say right at the beginning that if the church loses this passage, the church will lose her clarity, her urgency, and ...
Week 4 Discipleship - How Jesus Formed His Disciples
If we want to understand discipleship rightly, we must not begin with our favorite program, model, or ministry trend. We must begin with Jesus. Church, hear me, if Jesus is Lord of the church, then Jesus must also be the pattern for the church....
Week 3 Discipleship - Why Many Christians Struggle to Make Disciples
As we begin week 3 by now we have seen why discipleship matters, and we have asked what a true disciple is. But now we must ask a painful and honest question: why do so many churches struggle to make disciples with depth, clarify, and consisten...
Week 2 Discipleship - What It Means To Be A Disciple of Jesus Christ
If week 1 asked why discipleship must be recovered, week 2 asks the question that must not remain vague: what does it actually mean to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? Church, this matters more than many people realize, because there is a great d...
Week 1 Discipleship - Why the Church Must Recover Discipleship Now
I want to begin this first week the same way this burden of discipleship has been living in my heart, plainly, honestly, biblically, and with urgency that I express last week during the introduction. Church, hear me. If the church does not inte...
Week Fourteen of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
Bondages in our lives refer to various forms of restrictions, limitations, and entanglements that hinder our personal growth, well-being, and spiritual development. These bondages can manifest in different aspects of our lives, such as physical...
Week Thirteen of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
As we come to week thirteen of our journey to freedom, I want to finish with the song "In Jesus Name (God of Possible)" by Katy Nichole. "In Jesus' Name" signifies the believers request or action is made with Jesus' authority, for His glory, an...
Week Twelve of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
Title this week: My God CanThe song by Katy Nichole "My God Can" really goes along with this message if can find the song and add it to your library of to go top songs when you hit a brick and need some answers. I don't know about you bu...
Week Eleven of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
The Journey of faith is often filled with moments when we might feel lost or distant from God. However, the beautiful truth is that God is always there, waiting for us to turn back to Him. The scriptures assure us that when we sek Him, we will ...
Week Ten of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
Want to make a lie seem true? Say it again and again and again. Because of the world we live in today, if we arer not soundly grounded in God's word, we start to believe the world and Satan.
Week Nine of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
In this Journey of life, it is easy to feel the urge to take control, to grab the pen and write your own story. But as Christians we must remember that God is the author f our story. I believe that daily we must be reminded that God is still wr...
Week Eight of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
Question for you today who is in control of your life? Are you at the wheel or are you allowing God to be in control? I am learning what it means to allow God to have His way in my life. I have to fight the urge daily to have it my way. Sometim...
Week Seven of Our Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
It makes total sense that the God who created us can also heal us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Our creator God is our Great Physician as well. We should thank God for His restorative power and never hesitate to ask Him fo...
Week Sixth of Journey To Freedom Defeating Satan and This World
I am constantly reminded to hold onto what I believe in. Jesus is the light, when the darkest (Satan / the world) has robbed me of all my sight. So many times in this life, we fall so far short of what Christ has called us to do. We can be pray...
Week 5 of Our Journey to Freedom Defeating Satan and the World
Prayer is communication with God which helps us break the chains that the world and Satan use to keep us bound with our past. It serves as a direct, deliberate communication with the Creator, offering praise, confession, thanksgiving, and petit...
Week 4 of Our Journey to Freedom Defeating Satan and the World
When I fall are we looking for God to catch us or are we allowing the world and Satan to catch us? Just as trees don't stubbornly hold onto their dead leaves, so we should not hold onto unnecessary weight in our lives. The image of "dead leaves...
week 3 of Our Journey to Freedom Defeating Satan and this World
"Who Am I" Do we see ourselves as God sees us or as the world and Satan tells us who we are? Many of us waste time worrying about what other people of us. We want to be valued, loved, respected, and admired. But why base our identity and sense ...
The Love of God - "Unconditional - Is God's Conditional or Unconditional
Week Two of Our Journey to Freedom - Defeating Satan and This World I am hoping the message today will help us all to understand and discover the love of Gid, how God loves, how to love God, how to have a relationship wit...
Learning to Love Yourself
Starting March 4th and going for 14 weeks Journey to Freedom, we are planning to start a podcast devotional study and include a song to go with it. The devotional is to help us to learn how to defeat Satan, the world and our own minds in breaki...
Following God's Call - What Does It Mean To Be Called By God
The Bible often mentions people being called by God for a specific ministry or service. Paul was called by Go, the Old Testament priests were called by God to their special work. To be called by God is to be chosen by God for certain purposes. ...
Obedience To God's Is A Fundamental Aspect of Faith
Obedience is a fundamental aspect of faith, reflecting our love for Him and aligning our lives with His will as revealed in Scripture. Obedience in the Bible is not merely about following rules; it is about hearing, trusting, and submitting God...
Obedience Requires Confidence First
Lately, I have noticed how often I hold myself back because I don't feel ready. Not ready to speak. Not ready to lead. Not ready to respond when God seems to be pushing me forward into something He wants me to do. Somewhere along the way, I pic...
Rear View Mirror
The rear view is a metaphor used in sermons to illustrate the importance of focusing on the present and future while being aware of the past. It is a reminder to not be distracted by the past, which can hinder one's progress and spiritual growt...
Does God Promise to Not Give Us More Than We Can Handle
We have all heard the phrase, "God doesn't give us more than we can handle," especially when life is overwhelming. But what does this really mean? The phrase " God doesn't give us more than we can handle" is often linked to 1 Corinthians 10:13....