Put away treacherous actions and embrace God’s way of living. Genesis 20:9-11 (NLT) 9 Then Abimelech called for Abraham. “What have you done to us?” he demanded. “What crime have I committed that deserves treatment like this, making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? No one should ever do what you have done! 10 Whatever possessed you to do such a thing?” 11 Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her. Dear Church family and friends, today our 2010 devotional of the 10 reminds us that God wants us to trust him with every area of our lives. Sometimes we think we need to take care of the “difficult things” for God, and when we do, we fail to follow his ways. Abraham obeyed the Lord and began on his journey with Sarah his wife. Along the way he encountered fear that king Abimelech would have him killed if he knew they were married. Abraham chose to lie to try and protect his life. God called him out by visiting Abimelech in a dream.How often do we feel we must “help God out” as we try to live by faith in our life journey? God wants us to trust him with all the details and exercise our faith to allow God to see us through the tough parts of the journey. The great news about this story was that God’s mercy was there to keep Abraham on the right path even when his flesh was temporarily in the way. Let’s trust God with everything going on in our lives. If you have been helping God out, it is time to give everything over to him. – Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends,
Today we are starting our new 2010 devotion from verses of scripture that come from ten. Enjoy… Genesis 1:10 (NASB) 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. The tenth verse of scripture recorded in the Bible speaks about God’s boundaries between the earth and the sea. God created a separation between the land of the earth and the waters of the sea and he called it good. The world that does not respect God’s ways wants to create lifestyles without boundaries. When we live this way we find our life filled with trouble and we bring trouble to others around us. This is the season to rebuild godly boundaries for your life. This is a time to build or rebuild the basic foundations of godly living from the scriptures. We might be called judgmental or intolerant by others who do not want godly boundaries in their lives or for us to have them in our own lives. Stand up for what the Bible teaches you to follow. Focus on your foundations and ask God to reveal to you the proper boundaries to walk in each and every day.

Dear friends and family:
As I was praying about the new decade I had an inner sense to study specific verses of the bible connected to the number ten. When I did this I realized that I still must read everything in context historically and accurately. I did not read these verses to “try” to make every verse fit into something for the year of 2010. I simply obeyed the leading of the Holy Spirit and read these specific verses and allowed Him to speak to me about how these topics applied to what God is doing in the Church and in the earth as we enter into this second decade. I started reading the following chapters and verses of each book of the Bible, 1:10, 2:10, and 20:10. As I read each verse I listened to hear if there was anything specific for us in this hour from these verses. The following devotional blogs are written out of what I learned while reading these verses in this way. Some of the devotions have more than one verse because it was important to understand verse ten in context of the other verses around it. I encourage you to read these scriptures with the leading of the Holy Spirit to speak personally to you about what he is doing in your life and how you can be properly connected to the Church to work with others to advance God’s kingdom in the new decade. Stayed tuned….. -Pastor Greg

Dear friends and family:
Today is our annual State of the Church address. Over the many years of leading Skyway Church I found that when told people our annual business meeting was going to take place many chose to stay away. I then learned how to take this time as an opportunity to share my vision for our future and it changed into one of the best Sunday’s of the year. As we look back at 2009 our congregational finances were affected as our families were affected. We stayed in faith and moved forward beyond our struggles. As we look forward into 2010, I am committing to provide training and prayer to help people prepare for a new and different economy. We are opening new Skyway House Churches throughout Arizona as well as expanding our WLI training to other cities in Arizona and other states in the USA. Today we will recognize our new chaplains who have spent the last two years in training for us to license them into ministry. I look at the current world struggles as a pruning time. When you prune, you prepare to have greater fruitfulness in your life. Even though our finances were cut back we have not stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have expanded to reach over 26 nations, the most ever! We have not stopped preparing for the foundation for a great future; we are making it deeper and larger than ever before. All of this is preparing us for great multiplication in the next decade. God promises us a great and glorious future through Jesus Christ. I ask every member to support this vision with prayer, participation and finances as we move into our new decade together. – Pastor Greg